Wisdom Quotes - random
The most valuable stage of wisdom is the stage of self-consciousness.
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
We don't dance with leprechauns at the Palace of Wisdom.
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
We date real women in the Palace of Wisdom.
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.